Museums

Bill and Barbara Windsor's trip 'Round America covered 50 states and over 2,500 towns.

This list of Attractions provides information and photos of sights Round America has visited that could best be categorized as "Museums."

Each sight Round America visits is categorized by one of approximately 50 types of sights. So, if you are interested in the world's largest, smallest, movie locations, pie places, or any of the other categories, simply click on the link under "Types of Sights to See," and you will see a list of all sights that fit the chosen category.

American Folk Art Museum & Gallery - Tallahassee Florida Click here for more information
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The American Folk Art Museum & Gallery outside Tallahassee Florida is the workplace of a highly-regarded self-taught grassroots artist. Using found objects from her junkyard, Mary L. Proctor (known as "Missionary Mary") crafts three dimensional assembled works from buttons, mirrors, jewelry, and other odds and ends. Some works are inspired by bible scripture and others by memories of her grandmother or her childhood. Most include written messages of spiritual truths or life lessons. Missionary Mary's junkyard is now known as the American Folk Art Museum.

Gone With The Wind Movie Museum - Marietta Georgia Click here for more information
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The Gone With The Wind Movie Museum in Marietta Georgia has over 1,000 collection pieces, and you will see the world's largest collection of Gone With The Wind memorabilia including costumes worn by Vivien Leigh, Ona Munson, and Leslie Howard.

Goodwood Museum & Gardens - Tallahassee Florida Click here for more information

Goodwood Museum & Gardens is a museum and garden open to the public. Goodwood Museum & Gardens is situated on 16 acres of sprawling lawns, gardens and centuries old live oaks. In addition to the Main House, there are thirteen outbuildings, a roller rink, and reflecting pool.

Margaret Mitchell House - Atlanta Georgia Click here for more information
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What is now known as "Margaret Mitchell House" was built in 1899 by Cornelius J. Sheehan. The two-story, single-family home on fashionable Peachtree Street was converted in 1919 into a 10-unit apartment building. It was here, from 1925 until 1932, that Margaret Mitchell lived in Apartment #1 and wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gone With the Wind.,Testing Short Descirption

Road to Tara Museum - Jonesboro Georgia Click here for more information

Jonesboro, Georgia was the town where Margaret Mitchell placed the fictional Tara in "Gone With The Wind," so it is only fitting that the city have a museum about Gone With The Wind. In the stone railroad depot is the Road to Tara Museum. A variety of original pieces of memorabilia collected by Herb Bridges are on display.

Telfair Museum - Savannah Georgia Click here for more information
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The Telfair Museum of Art traces its history from 1886 when the Telfair family home opened to the public as an art museum and school. It now boasts three diverse sites -- the original building, the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, a National Historic Landmark building; the Owens-Thomas House, also a National Historic Landmark; and the recently completed Jepson Center for the Arts, a contemporary building which houses 20th- and 21st-century art. The Telfair Academy on Telfair Square houses the Bird Girl statue that was featured in the book and movie, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

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